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COMBINED GANE MILL AND STEAM ENGINE. No; 74,574. Patented Feb. 18, 1888.

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Letters Patent No. 74,574, daterl February 18, 1858.

COMBINED GANE-MILL AND STEAM-ENGINE.

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Be, it known that I, JOHN MOQRE, of Madison, in the county of Jefferson, and StateotIIndiana, have invented a new and improved Combined Steam-Engine and Cane-Mill; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others-skilled in the art to makeand use the saineV reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure '1, plate 1, is a plan or top view of my improvedcombined steam-engine and cane-mill. Figure 2, plate 1, a transverse vertical section, taken in the planel of the line a: x, iig. 1. Figure 3, plate 2, a front elevation, and y A Figure 4, plate 2, an elevation of one end of the combined canelnill and stearnengine.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. p The present invention relates to a. cane-mill, the frame of which is so constructed as to be susceptible of receiving such parts of asteam-engine as would bo necessary to drive the rollers of the mill; and'also in so constructingthe said frame that the rollers of the mill can be readily removed therefrom, or placed therein, to enable the steam-engine, which is arranged in connection with such cane-mill, to b'e used for threshing wheat, driving a circular or aVdrag-saw, a shingle or a lathc-machine, a straw or hay-cutter, a grinding-mill for corn, and for many other purposes.'

' By placing the cylinder-of a steam-engine and'therollers cf a cane-mill upon one frame, I am enabled to construct va much more portable inill, at much less ezipense, than the ordinary machinery employed for crushing cane. l Y

' A A, in the drawings, represent two parallel frames, secured in'vertical positions to `and upon acommon bed-*plate or platform, B, to which the' lower ends of the frames are bolted in any suitable manner. C C the two rollers of the mill, placed one above another, and each hung by its centre shaft or pin, 1),: at each end, in` suitable bearings of the upright frames A, extending across from one to the other. The lower roller of the two rollers C has a raised lip or iiange, E, around it ateach of its ends, between which the raised central portion F,

of the upper roller runs. The lower roller is hung` in sliding journal-boxes G, arranged in and' between the parallel guide-strips or cleats H, attached to the inside face of the upright frames A, whichcleats, H, upon the front'side of the canemill, are eut away at I, sulhciently to allow the lower roller to be removed from the bearf ings, 'when the upper' roller has been first raised therefrom. The upper e'nds of the cleats H are capped byplateslv J, which are secured thereto through bolts a, that, whenthe upper rolleris to be raised 'suciently to allow the lower roller to be removed, as above stated, are unscrewed to detach the cap-plates, and thus allow the'journalboxes, in which the upper roller is hung, tc be raised within the cleats I-I. To one and the same end of each of the rollers C a similar gear-wheel, K, is secured, whichg'car-wheels mesh into each other. Lis a pinion-wheel, secured to a shaft, M, arranged to turn in bearings'ofV the upright frames A, across from oneto the other of which it extends in a horiz'ontai plane. Nie agear-wheel, secured to one .end of the transverse horizontal shaft M, hereinabove referred to, with which gear-wheel meshes a small pinion-wheel, O, secured to one cnglof a transverse horizontal shaft, P, arranged to turn in bearings of the. upper ends of the frames A. This shaft Pis provided with a balance-wheel, Q, atone end, and a pulley, R, at ornear its centre, and at its end opposite to the balance-wheel Qis provided with a crank-arm, S, to which is'hung the uppcnend of apitman or connectingrod, T, pivotcd 'at its'lower end in and to a block or head, U, arranged to slide upon parallel vertical guide-ways or hars V, fixed upon the outside of one of the frames A. To this sliding-head or block U the rod W of thel piston of a steam-cylinder, X, is secured, the arrangement of which piston is thc same as in ordinary steam-` engincs. Y, the valvestem, hung at its upper end to the arm Z of the crank S. From the Vabore-described arrangement and connection of parts between the steam-cylinder Xan'd the roller C, `it is plain to be understood that, by the movement df the piston within the said steam-cylinder, both rollers C will bc made to revolve with au equal velocity, and thus enabling them to b used the same as the ordinary caneniills., Y p' With the smail'pinion-wheel A of the balance-wheel shaft P, a gear-wheel, B, engages of a transverse horizontal shaft, C, hung in bearings upon one side of the upright frame A. Thisishaft C, at onecud, is provided with a crank-arm, D2, to which is hung thc connecting-rod E2 of a piston-pump, F2,

Thus, from the above detail description, it is plain to be seen, tha.t, with o. carie-mill, uvcrtical steam-engine is combined in such a. manner that, while the sume frames or supports will serve for both, tho rollers of tbc canemill can be removed, and thus leave the engine free to be used for drivng threshing-mill, n. circular or drag-saw, or a. shingle or lathe-machine, 8vo., te., as is obvious Without any further explanation.

I claim as new, and. desire to secure by Letters Patent- The arrangement of the cylinder of astenia-engine and tne rollers of'a cane-mill upon the same frame, substantially as herein shos'm und described for the purpose specified.

JOHN MOORE. Witnesses SAMUEL CRAWFORD, JAMES H. Grissom 

